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THE WAY IT WAS

Welcome to The Way It Was. Here I will be sharing songs, flyers, etc. from ye olde days of tape trading. Sometimes it'll be an mp3 mix that I throw together, other times entire demo/album. I'm doing this to share a bit of my past with the rest of you, and it's FREE. I'm not making a dime off of this. Most of the tracks you will hear are rare or hard to find.

If any bands that appear on this site don't want your music featured, let me know and I'll take it down immediately.

I originally planned to leave each volume up for a month, but I will now keep all of this up as space permits. When I need to clear them out to make room for new material, I'll let you all know. SUBMISSIONS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME! (drop me a line at bobby at paranoizenola dot com)

08/16/2014
While this section has been abandoned for years, I have started a new version of The Way It Was on blogspot that features entire demo downloads with cover art, and interviews with the bands!
You can find it here: http://paranoizenola.blogspot.com

Here is the last update I did to this page, which will eventually be organized better!

11/04/09 The Thrashcore Years(1989-1991)
These are out-of-town bands that I discovered while I was publishing my first 'zine, Thrashcore.
This is a mix of tracks from demos that I got through the mail (either sent for review, or I ordered from the bands)or bought at a show. This list is in alphabetical order because I couldn't think of any other way to put it all together.

This is when thrash metal, death metal, grindcore, metalcore, etc. was still relatively uncharted territory. There were no rules. These bands were writing the rules!
Some of them went on to bigger, better things while others just faded into obscurity.

Aftershock-tracks from demo 1989
Aftershock formed from the ashes of Shell Shock after Hatch Boy's suicide, and eventually evolved into Crowbar.
These are tracks that I saved from a couple of different WTUL (91.5 fm) metal show recordings. This is not the complete demo, and since this was taped off of the radio, the sound quality isn't so great.
The lineup on this recording was: Kirk Windstein-vocals/guitar, Kevin Noonan-guitar, Mike Savoie-bass, Jimmy Bower-drumsFeeding FearCrowned In ThornsInvisible Tattoo